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News – 2007.04.02

IMEC Reveals Details of Wireless Biomedical Monitoring Platforms
IMEC together with its sister company IMEC-Nederland at the Holst Centre realized two new body-monitoring wireless sensor nodes which collect and process data from human body sensors and wirelessly transmit the data to a central monitoring system. The small size and low power consumption of both systems enables non-invasive and ambulatory monitoring of vital body parameters.

ARC Acquires Teja, Multiprocessor Technology, Patents
ARC International (LSE:ARK) announced that it has acquired the key assets of Teja Technologies, Inc., a privately held company based in San Jose, California and a technology leader that develops heterogeneous multiprocessor software. The acquisition includes Teja’s software products, key customer contracts, its engineering team, and patents for Teja’s award-winning technology.

Xilinx Introduces Spartan-DSP
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), introduced the low-cost Spartan(TM)-DSP series with development boards and enhanced design software, significantly expanding its offering of XtremeDSP(TM) solutions and establishing a new price-performance-power triad for digital signal processing (DSP). The Spartan-DSP series provides high DSP performance at the lowest cost points in the FPGA industry, delivering over 20 GMACS for under $30, while consuming up to 50 percent less dynamic power than other high-performance reconfigurable devices for DSP functions at this performance point.

Quantum3D Releases IData 3.0 Human-Machine Interface Tools
Quantum3D(R), Inc., a leading provider of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) open-architecture, realtime visual computing solutions for the Visual and Sensor Simulation and Training (VSST) and Embedded Visual Computing (EVC) markets, announced the release of IData(R) 3.0, the latest version of Quantum3D’s innovative Human-Machine Interface (HMI) development toolset and visual computing framework. IData is a suite of powerful, cost-effective, PC-based HMI tools that enables developers to rapidly prototype, develop and deploy dynamic and interactive cross-platform 2D and 3D HMIs for high-performance graphics and video-intensive applications such as avionics, vehicle electronics, unmanned vehicle control, C4ISR systems, industrial automation, medical systems and embedded training. The IData product family will be featured in the SYSGO/Quantum3D booth (no. 732) at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, April 3-5, 2007.

S2 Rolls Out STRIDE 2.1 Embedded Software Verification Platform
S2 Technologies (S2), a leader in optimizing embedded software integration, announced the availability of the STRIDE 2.1 Embedded Software Verification Platform. This release represents a major upgrade in the ability of embedded development teams to engage in software testing and verification early in the development process.

Quantum3D, SYSGO to Develop FidelityVCF for Safety-Critical Market
Quantum3D(R), Inc., a leading provider of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS), open-architecture, realtime visual computing solutions, and SYSGO(R), a global supplier of highly reliable device software, announced that the two companies have teamed to develop FidelityVCF(TM)-the industry’s first COTS tightly integrated, advanced realtime embedded visual computing development and deployment software for the Safety-Critical market.

Macraigor Support for New ARM, PowerPC, AMD, Marvell Processors
Macraigor Systems LLC announced additional support for several new processor chips in the ARM, PowerPC, AMD and Marvell families. The debugging and control of these chips will be supported by all Macraigor debug software solutions when used with the OCDemon family of products. The OCDemon products offer the industry’s most advanced, yet price-sensitive, solution for the designing, debugging and programming of hardware designs and application software.

RTI Powers Insitu’s Unmanned Autonomous Aircraft
Real-Time Innovations (RTI), The Real-Time Middleware Experts, announced that its real-time messaging middleware has been selected for use by Insitu Inc., a pioneer developer of long-endurance, unmanned autonomous aircraft (UAV). RTI’s technology will be used in Insitu’s next generation of unmanned air vehicles, including the company’s next-generation ScanEagle and newer platforms.

Renesas Launches 16-bit Microcontroller with Ethernet Controller
Renesas Technology America, Inc. announced the H8S/2472F, a new member of the popular H8S series that is the company’s first 16-bit microcontroller incorporating an Ethernet controller. The 34-MHz device with built-in flash memory is optimized for use in low-end servers, communications equipment and building automation systems. Besides the Ethernet controller, it offers a comprehensive set of peripheral functions, including a USB peripheral function (with Full-Speed support), I2C bus, and LPC (low pin count) bus, allowing connection to a variety of peripheral systems. Its compact (13mm x 13mm), 176-pin BGA (Ball Grid Array) package allows the design of small, low-power systems.

CoWare Go-to-Market with Upgraded Virtual Platform
CoWare, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced a new release of the CoWare Virtual Platform Product Family that addresses the challenges associated with go-to-market strategies and software development for multicore, platform-based designs. Time-to-market, development costs, and quality concerns are driving the need to establish new business processes across the enterprise, including the engagement with partners and customers. CoWare’s Virtual Platform solution enables the business function to deliver more efficient go-to-market initiatives while enabling engineering to reduce cycle time associated with software integration and testing.

Atmel AVR32 Kit Features Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS
Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), announced the availability of its ThreadX RTOS for developers using Atmel’s newly announced AVR32 UC core and AT32UC3A EVK1100 Evaluation Kit. With its small memory footprint and low overhead performance, ThreadX delivers efficient support for resource-constrained systems, making it a perfect fit for the AVR32 cores. To provide its customers with this strong combination, Atmel selected the ThreadX RTOS for its latest AVR32 development kit.

Renesas, ZMD to Develop 900 MHz Band ZigBee Chipset
Renesas Technology Corp. and ZMD AG announced a joint development agreement enabling Renesas to incorporate ZMD’s RF technology into Renesas microcontrollers (MCU) to develop a 900-MHz band ZigBee(R) chipset. Based on this agreement, the two companies will set up a collaborative development team with the aim of bringing a ZigBee chipset to market. The resulting advanced chipset is expected to accelerate the development of various types of IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee systems. The two companies intend to complete the development work in 2008.

Telelogic Debuts Rhapsody 7.1 for Model-Driven Development
Telelogic (STO:TLOG) announced the latest version of its popular Model-Driven Development(TM) (MDD(TM)) solution, Telelogic Rhapsody(R) 7.1. The new Telelogic Rhapsody(R) release is more tightly aligned with the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Systems Modeling Language 1.0 (SysML(TM)) and offers greater support for Agile development processes, leading to enhanced productivity and flexibility.

Mentor Graphics Unveils Inflexion API for Nucleus Operating RTOS
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced a new application programming interface (API) for its Inflexion Platform(TM) UI (user interface) for the Nucleus(R) OS (operating system). The API delivers a new approach for rapid creation of dynamic user interfaces for electronic devices. Consequently, manufacturers can now deliver the most visually appealing and easy-to-use electronic device UI screens demanded by today’s consumers, while also being able to reuse and update them easily.

AMD Debuts M690 Chipset, Development Board for Embedded Systems
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced the continued expansion of its embedded product offerings with the release of the AMD M690 Chipset for Embedded Designs, which provides a stable and reliable commercial embedded computing platform that includes cutting-edge graphics and performance features along with outstanding connectivity options. Supporting the availability of the AMD M690 Chipset for Embedded Designs, the company also announced the AMD Socket S1 and AMD M690 chipset development board, for high-performance capabilities with a low power envelope.

Wind River Upgrades Workbench On-Chip Debugging Tools
Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), announced enhancements to Wind River Workbench(R) 2.6.1 On-Chip Debugging Edition, the company’s comprehensive device software development toolset for mitigating the complexities of on-chip debugging. The upgraded Wind River Workbench, OCD Edition, provides a development toolset that does not require kernel instrumentation to debug the Linux kernel and user applications, and will also offer multicore device developers a more fully supported, standards-based development environment.

Aonix PERC Ultra Supports Nucleus RTOS
Aonix, the provider of the PERC real-time solutions for embedded Java developers, announced that Aonix’ flagship virtual machine technology and one of the first implementations of the Java 5 standard for embedded systems, is available to Nucleus OS users. PERC Ultra 5.0 provides deterministic garbage collection technology, support for the rich library set specified in the Java Version 5 standard, and integration support for the Nucleus OS execution environment, giving real-time developers a powerful Java development and execution platform.

Aonix to Create Eclipse-based Ada Development Toolkit
Aonix(R), a provider of solutions for safety- and mission-critical applications, announced that it is leading a new Eclipse-based initiative to create an Ada Development Toolkit (ADT) project and will collaborate with the Eclipse Foundation(TM) toward that end. With this new initiative, Aonix is offering its Eclipse(TM) plug-in technology to the open-source community and has proposed to the Eclipse Foundation that its AonixADT technology be used in the ADT project as the core baseline technology. Opening AonixADT to the user community through an authorized Eclipse project will provide the Ada community free access to the open and extensible AonixADT(TM) solution.

RTI Extensions Enable Distributed Real-Time Java
Real Time Innovations (RTI), The Real-Time Middleware Experts, announced that it has added extensions to RTI Data Distribution Service to take advantage of Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ)-compliant Java Runtime Environments (JREs). With these extensions, developers can take advantage of the real-time messaging capabilities of RTI Data Distribution Service in conjunction with real-time Java programming to develop high-performance and predictable distributed applications.

Java with PERC 2x Faster than Java with C
Aonix(R), the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, demonstrates that an all Java code solution executing with PERC Ultra and PERC Pico outstrips an equivalent Java program that uses C code for computing-intensive algorithms. The demonstration reveals that low-level Java code executing in the PERC Pico environment runs at a speed comparable to an equivalent low-level C program. In addition, the demonstration shows that PERC Pico provides a 200% performance improvement over C when used in hybrid applications where complex functionality is written with standard Java code and libraries, while high throughput functionality is written in C.

Connect One Introduces iChipSec CO2128 IP Controllers
Connect One(TM), the Device Networking Authority(TM), is proud to announce the first shipments of its iChipSec CO2128, a secure Internet Protocol (IP) communication controller chip that reduces cost and speeds design of IP-enabled machine-to-machine (M2M) applications needing IP connectivity and security. CO2128 works as a coprocessor that offloads IP and network security protocols from the host processor, freeing developers to focus on their core competency of application development. CO2128 is ideal for any application that needs secure IP connectivity, such as point-of-sale (POS) terminals, utility metering, video surveillance, and medical devices.

IBASE Rolls Out Mini-ITX Motherboard with Intel Q965 Express Chipset
IBASE Technology, a leading manufacturer of Mini-ITX solutions, introduced the MI900 Mini-ITX motherboard series designed for either the Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo or Intel(R) Pentium(R) D processors of up to 1066MHz FSB. The MI900 is based on the Intel’s Q965 Express chipset and it comes with two dual channel DDR2 memory slots delivering up to 1.28GB/s of bandwidth and 4GB memory capacity for faster system responsiveness and support of 64-bit computing. The new IBASE motherboards are aimed for high performance PCs in the digital, communications and industrial sector.